What is present subjunctive in Spanish?

The subjunctive mood expresses desires, wishes, suggestions, commands, or hypothetical situations.

Before conjugating the present subjunctive, you need to know the present tense in Spanish for the indicative mood.

To form the subjunctive, take the “yo” form of an indicative verb and drop the final “-o.” Then, for -ar verbs, apply the “-er” endings, and for -er and -ir verbs, apply the -ar endings.

For example, “Llueve hoy” means “It’s raining today.” The verb used is “llover” [“to rain”] in the indicative. In the subjunctive, we could say “Espero que llueva hoy,” or “I hope it rains today.”

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